Leon Smyth Laboratory
Neuro-Immune Interactions
Welcome to the Leon Smyth Lab
We aim to understand the rules that govern communication between the brain and the immune system, how this relationship regulates brain physiology, and how it changes in brain injury and cancer.
We're part of the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, and a member of the Cancer, Neuroscience and Immunity Programs.
and the Department of Physiology.
Dr Leon Smyth
My global research connections, partners and funding can be viewed on my Monash Research Profile.
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Our research
In the last decade we have found that the brain system is constantly communicating with the immune system, not in the brain itself but at its borders, especially in the 3-layered membrane that wrap around it – the meninges. Our lab uses cutting edge genetic tools, imaging approaches, -omics techniques, and disease models to understand the role of the meninges in health, brain cancer and brain injury.
Lab members
We are committed to excellence in research.
Join Our Lab
We're always interested in collaborating with bright and motivated researchers, clinicians and industry. Whether you want to research, study or partner with us to accelerate our discoveries, find out about the work we do.